The first class of apps are part of Google's App Runtime for Chrome (beta), the project that Google's head of Android Sundar Pichai first revealed earlier this year during Google I/O. The project is part of Google's broader effort to make Android and Chrome OS a more unified experience.

Given Chromebook's prevalence in schools, it's not surprising that two of the first apps Google would choose to push to the platform first are educational apps: Duolingo and Sight Words. Duolingo is a language-learning app and Sight Words is an app to teach children how to read.

Evernote is among the first set of Android apps to come to Chromebooks.

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